What do you mean by cautious independence, safety, respect, strength, benevolence, joy, diligence and respect?

It means that when a person is alone, he can feel relaxed and calm by being careful with his thoughts, words and actions. Subjective respect for people, things and things can make the body and mind strong. Paying attention to kindness can convince people. Hard work and diligence can make the gods admire.

From Zeng Guofan's commandments

Yu Tong was born more than 30 years ago, and his official position is the best, but he has accomplished nothing in his studies, and his virtue is beyond reproach. The boss was hurt and ashamed. I want to say goodbye to you now, and I want to teach you four things.

I am cautious and independent. Self-study is not difficult to cultivate the mind; It is difficult to raise your heart, but you should also be cautious. You can be cautious, introspective and innocent, and you can geological ghosts and gods. No one is ashamed, then the heavenly king will be calm. This heart is always agile and broad-minded, which is the first way to strengthen yourself, to have fun and to keep fit.

Second, the Lord is strong. The interior is quiet and pure, and the exterior is neat and serious. When you respect it; When you go out, you will see the distinguished guests and let the people bear the big sacrifices and respect the sky; Self-cultivation is to protect the people, the world is peaceful, and it is also effective to respect each other. Smart and wise, all from this. Zhuang Jing is strong every day, and Anse steals every day. If there is no one, big or small, we should respect them one by one and dare not neglect them. If you are strong, why do you doubt it?

Third, seeking benevolence makes people happy. Every mortal's life is shaped by the principle of heaven and earth and the qi of heaven and earth. I have the same roots as the people. If you know yourself but don't know what people love, then you have lost the way to the source of great books. As for respecting officials and being generous, they have the responsibility to save the people from fire, water and hunger.

Never forget the past, the teacher of the future has both the responsibility of perception and the responsibility of perception. Confucius taught people nothing more than seeking benevolence. The most important thing is not to establish people, but to learn from them. Who is not happy to return home when he has become a great event?

Fourth, learning to work is a god. What a person wears in a day is commensurate with what he does in a day, so others will do it, and ghosts and gods will allow him to think that he is independent. If farmers weave girls all the year round and work hard to make a few feet of cloth, and rich families are happy all the year round and don't run businesses, but the food will be delicious and the clothes will be gorgeous, the world will be the most uneven, and ghosts and gods will not allow it. Can it last?

Ancient sages and sages are always trying to encourage themselves. For a plan, you must practice your skills, hone your bones and muscles, walk in difficulties and worry about dangers, so that you can increase your wisdom and knowledge. If you plan for the world, you will be starved and drowned, and you will not get a husband, which will lead to ancient jade. Dayu and Mozi were extremely frugal.

Serve the body and try to save the people. Diligence leads to longevity, and evasion leads to death. Diligence leads to the use of material, and evasion leads to the abandonment of hard work. Diligence is what people learn, and God admires them. Escape is what people don't help, and ghosts don't worry.

These four articles are the fruits of ten years in other parts of the world. If your brother remembers the trip and passes it on to his children and grandchildren, Yu Zeng's family will live forever and have talents.

I have been an official for more than 30 years, and my official position has reached the highest level, but I have made no achievements in my studies and nothing to boast about in my virtue. When I get old, I will only feel sad and ashamed. Now I want to say goodbye to you forever, and I want to teach your brothers the following four things.

First, when a person is alone, his thoughts, words and actions are cautious, so that he can feel at ease and take his time.

The most difficult thing to cultivate one's morality is to cultivate one's mind. The most difficult thing to cultivate one's mind is to think carefully, speak carefully and act cautiously when one is alone.

If a person can be cautious in thinking, speaking and acting, he can have a clear conscience and live up to the conscience of heaven and earth and the questioning of ghosts and gods.

If a person doesn't do anything guilty when he is alone, then he will feel very stable, and his mood will often be very happy, satisfied, relieved and safe. Think, say and do carefully (when you are alone) is the best road to self-improvement, the way to find happiness in life, and the basis to remain honest.

Second, subjective respect for people and things can make you physically and mentally strong.

Single-minded, quiet and integrated, neat in appearance and rigorous in attitude, this is the respectful way to treat people, things and things; Going out is like visiting a distinguished guest, just like the respectful attitude of ordinary people when they worship their ancestors. This is an atmosphere of respect for people, things and things.

If you want to appease the people with your own knowledge, you must be meticulous and respectful to convince the people. This is the effect of being respectful to people and things. Smart people and witty people can always leave a good impression on others, because they can be respectful to people and things.

Subjectively, serious respect for people and things will become stronger every day. Subjectively, arrogance and rudeness towards people will die out every day. If you can be respectful to a person or a group of people, big or small, and dare not relax or neglect at all, is your physical and mental strength still questionable?

Third, paying attention to kindness can convince people.

People's life in the world is realized through the mechanism of heaven and earth, and people's self-image is realized through the breath of heaven and earth. Compared with ordinary people, I (Zeng Guofan) have the same meaning for the endless life.

If I (referring to Zeng Guofan) only know selfishness, but I don't know how to care for the people and cherish things, then I will violate or even abandon the infinite meaning of life. As for those high-ranking officials who enjoy generous salaries, they are above all others, so they should assume the responsibility of saving people from drowning and hunger.

After reading ancient books and learning the thoughts of the ancients, you have the responsibility to vigorously publicize the correct thoughts of the ancients that you have learned in ancient books.

Confucius' Confucian education requires children to pay attention to kindness, and the most fundamental thing to pay attention to kindness is to achieve others first, and to enrich others first. Who can make others rich and unconvincing, how can people submit to him?

Fourth, hard work and diligence can make immortals admire.

If a person's clothes and food can match the intensity of what he does during the day, he will be recognized by others and praised by ghosts and gods. This is because he is eating by himself.

If ordinary men plow fields and women weave fabrics, they will earn a few loads of grain and pieces of cloth all year round, while rich young masters are carefree and do nothing all year round, eating delicacies and wearing brocade.

He slept like a pig after being drunk. When he wakes up, people will passively meow at him. This is the most unfair thing in the world. Even ghosts and gods will not allow him (a rich man) to behave like this. Can a rich family be so comfortable and enjoy it for a long time?

In ancient times, wise emperors and ministers all took hard work as their motto and always inspired themselves. From a personal point of view, we should practice and learn technical skills hard, actively exercise our physique, redouble our efforts to study knowledge when we feel that we have too little knowledge, and always be prepared for danger in times of peace. Only in this way can we increase our talents by increasing our knowledge.

For the sake of the common people in the world, we should feed and clothe them, make them no longer in dire straits, let them receive education, and stop having their own opinions like wormwood by the water. These are all our responsibilities.

Dayu and Mozi mostly advocate that personal life should be very frugal, but they should work very hard and make themselves well fed. Those who work hard live long lives, but those who enjoy themselves live short lives. Hard-working people can come in handy because they often take part in social labor and learn talents, while people who enjoy themselves will be eliminated by society because they never take part in social labor and have no talents.

A hard-working person can create wealth for society and bring benefits to others, so that the gods admire and admire his behavior. A man who loves ease and pleasure cannot create wealth for society and bring benefits to others, so that the gods are disgusted with his behavior.

These four articles are accumulated from my decades of life. Your brothers should remember, carry it out and pass it on to future generations. In this way, our Zeng family can last forever and have talents from generation to generation.

Extended data:

The fourth day of February in the eleventh year of Tongzhi (1872) was a sad day for Zeng Guofan. 15 years ago today, Zeng Guofan's father passed away. On that day, he worshipped his father's memorial tablet and asked his son Zhangze to help him go for a walk in the garden. He said to Ji Ze: "I have fought many wars in my life, and fighting is the most harmful thing. I have done evil. There will be no more soldiers fighting in my family. "

Father and son pulled the car home and unconsciously approached a bamboo forest. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and Zeng Guofan let out a cry of "foot numbness" and threw himself on his son. When he was helped into the room, Zeng Guofan could no longer speak. He pointed to the table: this is his will. ..... The commandment is actually Zeng Guofan's suicide note, which is a family instruction for generations.